I like to know the city by subway map.
Summer has begun and with it my dream will be fulfilled. I'm going for two weeks to London, where I had never been before only virtually. I have a round-trip alone. I think it will be a great experience to connect quickly with the language and the residents. I will be a guiri although I'm staying at my cousin's house. They are three in their family, now they just had a little daughter, her name's Isla because her parents were born on different islands: her father in Mallorca and her mother in the U.K. It's an original name, I love it! Guess what?
“I'd like to improve my English”, will say when people ask me. It's the typical phrase from student. The first days I will be a woman attached to a dictionary and if I could I will attend a public course in libraries in the city. The main purpose is to move. Every early morning I'm buying the bread, reading newspaper and watching TV because someone told me “when you arrive in a new country, you only know the people's country by watching the flagship television channel”. It will be a beatiful morning, I'm strolling through Kensingston Garden and admiring the Neverland's sculture and then in Hyde Park, I'm reading a Letters to Emma Bowlcut an epistolary novel of Bill Callahan. He is a good singer-songwriter and guitarist that published in July his first book. "I like your theory that the sounds that surround us sculpt the shape of our head”, say him and I share.
I know that in London there are a lot of Misery Bear but I want be one of them, I hope an happy ending. I want to walk around the city, see tourist attractions and go for a walk to Covent Garden. I will get lost at the Soho and I'm buying a book of poems in Foyle's, I will sort my ideas in Piccadilly Circus, take photos of all and publish one for day on facebook and go for a bike ride along the river Thames. I want look for new art in the Tate and classic history in the British Museum. I love discovering new cities without plans. Who doesn't? I would like to have a film tour. I think that the cinema shows the cities to foreigners before reaching their destiny. When you arrive there, you can recognise it. I'm looking for movies and TV shows set in London because I like looking for differences and similarities in the same place. I want to find Jack the ripper and I will go to Whitechapel's heart. I will write a tale about him and I will go to Oxford University. Maybe, one day I will go to Brighton beach and meeting people.
It's possible that I can attend a Vfestival although I have no entries. They will be days to search my memory. Who am I? My cousin told me that I don't have limits. “You could do anything that you want because you live without borders”. I've built my life with aims. I promise I will be faithful to you. Fifteen days without you are nothing. We have a whole life ahead! Some day or night, I'll be a babysitter and I'll miss you and as you learnt me, I will say: Wish you were here. But I will try not to cry because just will be fifteen days. You understand me, you help me, you keep me company, you cheer me up to get my dreams. I'm a dreamer like said Martin L. King “I have a dream” and I want get. Now, my dream is becoming real. I'm reading “Historias de Londres” written by Enric González and I’m flying to London, tomorrow. I take a plane with the hope of those traveling to the promised land.
There I want to dream in English, just one time. I want to turn English in my foreign language. Although I promise don't forget my Portuguese.